Frank traynor's jazz preachers - the longest day

On 24 April 1954 Traynor married with Catholic rites Patricia Jewel Burgess. By 1956, when he formed ‘The Jazz Preachers’, music had become his career. He led the band for almost thirty years. A complex, sometimes seemingly contradictory man, he was not given to compromise. His displays of fiery temper were legendary. After one concert he rushed at an eminent politician who had picked up his trombone, and grasped him by the throat shouting, ‘Put that down!’ But he could also be genial and generous, particularly with those who shared his musical enthusiasms.